4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 123c0aab0050cd0e07ce18e453389fbbb0a5a425 ] There is a check on pmlmepriv before dereferencing it when vfree'ing pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf however the previous call to rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data deferences pmlmepriv causing a null pointer deference if it is null. Avoid this by also calling rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data if the pointer is non-null. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1230262 ("Dereference before null check") Fixes: 7b464c9fa5cc ("staging: r8188eu: Add files for new driver - part 4") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c @@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ void rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(struct m void rtw_free_mlme_priv(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv) { - rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv); - - if (pmlmepriv) + if (pmlmepriv) { + rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv); vfree(pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf); + } } struct wlan_network *_rtw_alloc_network(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv)